Mrs. Xing was a little impressed by this name and couldn't help but smile: "Hou Gongzi? It's Hou Sui's precious son, right? Hou Sui is Zuo Liangyu's benefactor!"

Although he has an earth-shattering reputation in the Qinlou Chu Pavilion in Nanjing because of his indiscriminate gambling of thousands of dollars, Hou Fangyu failed to even get into the officialdom, so Mrs. Xing didn't take him seriously at all, and the reason why she remembered him was entirely because of his father Hou Sui.

His father Hou Sui not only once served as a household secretary, but also rose to the military department two years ago, and the most important thing is that he is also the benefactor of Ningnan Hou Zuo Liangyu, the reason why the court rose to restore Hou Sui at that time was because of the special relationship between him and Zuo Liangyu, but it is a pity that even he can't change Zuo Liangyu's determination to run all the way.

Gao Jie laughed: "He has something to do with Ning Nanhou, but since he is in our army, what waves can he make?" The reason why I take a fancy to this Hou Gongzi is because he is the top family in Henan!"

It is true that Hou Fangyu is a prominent family in Henan, although Hou Fangyu himself did not even get in, but the Hou family is indeed the top famous family in Henan, two generations have produced three Jinshi, his father Hou Sui and his uncle Hou Ke are on the list of Jinshi in Wanli for 43 years, which is a rare story in Henan Shilin.

There is a Ming generation, as long as you win the Jinshi, there will naturally be people who take the initiative to enjoy the glory and wealth, the Hou family has been running for several generations, even if Hou Sui was imprisoned during the Chongzhen period, Hou Fangyu can still take a few thousand taels of silver to prostitute and gamble indiscriminately in Nanjing, and even Huang Zongxi, who is also prostituting and gambling, can't stand it, and feels that since Hou Sui is still in prison, it is too unreasonable for Hou Fangyu to prostitute so much every day that he loses contact.

But only the real famous families have such confidence, Gao Jie told Mrs. Xing: "I have specially confirmed with people that the Hou family is indeed the leading famous family in Guide Mansion, only the Yuan family in Suiyang can be equal to them, and on the ground of Guide Mansion, whether it is in Shangqiu, Ningling, or Suizhou, there is no injustice of the Hou family!"

Mrs. Xing's original biggest concern was that the Northern Expedition was unfamiliar and no one answered, but now she was relieved to hear Gao Jie say this: "It's still the husband who thinks about it thoroughly, but the Northern Expedition is very important, and this matter needs to be thought twice!"

Gao Jie said with a big grin: "Madame, don't worry, this matter is very important, so I must be 100% sure before I do it, but the military resources and grain will be entrusted to the lady!"

In this regard, Mrs. Xing has always been Gao Jie's virtuous helper, and the reason why the two met at the beginning was because Li Zicheng asked Xing's family to distribute military resources and grain, and although the imperial court has never given sufficient food and salary over the years, it was Mrs. Xing who did everything possible to raise money to make this Gao family army develop to this point today.

Although she always felt that this Northern Expedition seemed to be a little inappropriate, Mrs. Xing still tried every means to help Gao Jie raise military funds and salaries, but she soon found that the difficulty of this Northern Expedition was beyond imagination.

Among the four towns in Jiangbei, only Gao Jie independently prepared for the Northern Expedition, and the rest of Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing, and Huang Degong were thankful that they did not hold back, and the court also knew that the Jianyu was not good, but they still had the idea of "uniting the captives to destroy the Kou", lest this Northern Expedition offend the Qing soldiers.

And more importantly, the court has been fighting sparsely recently, since Ruan Dacheng recovered as a "soldier in the army", the political dispute in the court has entered a new stage.

A political group has long been formed around Ruan Dacheng, among these people there are both eunuchs, Donglin's opponents who have been beaten as eunuchs, and even Donglin and Fushe, but no matter what their position is, now with Ruan Dacheng's recovery, they will naturally follow suit.

And as soon as Ruan Dacheng made a move, he took the key position of the secretary of the ministry, although Ma Shiying liked Zhang Guowei, but Ruan Dacheng directly recovered Zhang Jie through Lu Jiude's relationship, that is, "the mouth of the public is all about Zhang Jiemei, and the public attacks it, why not?" However, Liu Zhongcheng Zong Zhou and Zhang gave Zheng Chen to the heart of Zhang Jie.

Zhang Jie was known for fighting against Wei Zhongxian during the Apocalypse, but he was beaten into a eunuch party in the Chongzhen Dynasty, and the reason was naturally that he suggested the resumption of the eunuch party Lu Chunru when he was in charge of the ministry, so he offended the Donglin party and was also beaten into a eunuch party, and he was not able to recover during the entire Chongzhen period.

And now that Zhang Jie has become the secretary of the ministry, he naturally wants to show his ambitions and use his own people as much as possible, and the Wenxuan Qing Officials Division uses his old friend Liu Yingbin, and other positions are also able to use his own people as much as possible, even to the point of completely fighting the same party and fighting differences.

Now it is no longer a dispute between Ma Ruan and Donglin, but a crusade against all dissidents under the banner of "making a decision with a different heart", not to mention the people of Donglin, even Gao Hongtu, an old minister who claims to be neutral and selfless and has a grudge with Donglin, has been squeezed out of the court, and even a hero like Guo Weicheng who supports King Fu's enthronement can't stay in the court.

It's just that in the past, they could only take the initiative to ask Zhishi to return to seclusion, but now they have a new choice, and they have gone south to Jinhua to join Queen Zhang.

After all, the current three prefectures of Jinqu are a paradise in their eyes, don't look at Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng through Zhang Jie, the secretary of the ministry, who completely controls the personnel operation, but for the three prefectures and twenty-three counties of Jinqu, it is beyond the reach of the whip.

Even if there is a new appointment in the ministry, as long as Empress Zhang refuses to admit that the original officials are still in office, and even many officials appointed by the imperial court do not take office after receiving the appointment, but go to Empress Zhang's side to escort them, the more fierce the court fight in the southern capital, the higher the prestige of Empress Zhang.

Although everyone admits that Emperor Hongguang was established by Empress Zhang, now everyone thinks that Empress Zhang is far-sighted and has three chapters of the law with King Fu in advance, and now Emperor Hongguang not only has immorality, but also can not do any of the three chapters of the original covenant.

The matter of the year's coin is that Empress Zhang sent Xiao Chengyi Bo to forcibly protect Cao to stop temporarily, and now Nanjing is spreading the blessing of the king every night without half a catty of famous wine is unable to sleep, and the selection of concubines is carried out with great fanfare, even Hangzhou, which is close at hand, is in Zhang Luo to choose concubines and palace maids, and the people are unbearable.

However, as for the suggestion of setting up another son of heaven, Empress Zhang and Liu Yongxi have already reached a consensus: "General trivial matters, Mr. Zhu and Mr. Tong can be decided, but the abolition of the establishment is not an ordinary trivial matter, and I will not consider it if I don't nod my head sincerely!"

Everyone knows that the "sincerity Bo" in Empress Zhang's mouth refers to Liu Yongxi, the son of Sincere Bo, and it is also the only force that can be trusted in Zhejiang, and I also feel that Empress Zhang is a safe opinion, although the Hongguang small court in Nandu is perverse, but it has not yet been completely defeated, and the available escort army around Empress Zhang is only two or three thousand people at most, and there is no power to crusade against Nandu, so it must be considered in the long run.